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===Veritas Press===
  
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[[File:1AVA.png|left|70px]]'''[[First Annual Veritas Awards]]''' (Year 14)
  
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Syn
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Biographical Information
Race Anzati (formerly Falleen)
Homeworld Qat Chrystac
Spouse Unknown
Born Over 200 years ago
Physical Description
Gender Female
Height 5'8"
Coloring Pale skin
Hair Color Black
Eye Color Green
Political Information
Affiliation Eidola (Year 8 - Present)
Rank Second in Command
Pirate Consigliere
Positions Pirate
Princess of Huruk-Rah
Reputable middleman
Citizen of Trade Federation
Prior Affiliation Starsign Shipyards (Year 6 - 8)
Eidola (Year 5 - 6)
Order of Krath (Year 5)
Jedi Praxium (Year 4 - 5)
Outrider Trading (Year 4)
Galactic Empire (Year 2 - 4)
Awards Various, detailed below

An Anzati female, Syn (pronounced sin) began her career in the Imperial Navy of the Galactic Empire, where she rose to the rank of Captain and was ultimately placed on Naval High Command prior to her resignation following the removal of Emperor Charon. After covertly working with two different pirate groups and an assortment of Charon loyalists, she took advantage of the considerable wealth and reputation she had sustained as a widely-regarded middleman and founded two sister production companies within the Rachuk sector that she controlled: Starsign Shipyards and Starsign Mining. After several years of providing a variety of YT freighters to the public at low costs, she abruptly sold both companies, as well as all of her real estate within Rachuk, and returned publicly to the Eidola pirates, with whom she remains allied today.

Until being diagnosed with the Metamorphosis Plague in early Year 14, she occasionally made formal public appearances at significant galactic events as leader and representative of the royal Falleen clan Huruk-Rah. She is also known for her ownership of the heavily modified YT-510 Solitaire, the fastest starship in the galaxy, and for her ransom of an Imperial Executor in exchange for a personal Super Star Destroyer.


Biography

Early Years

Young Syn resembling a Human.

Syn was raised as a Human on the neutral world of Qat Chrystac, the sole adopted child of a man and woman known as the Becketts. They chose not to reveal her adoption or its circumstances, either publicly or to Syn herself, and so she was raised without knowledge of her true parentage. Characterized by a series of misdemeanors and arrests, her youth was not a considerable source of pride. As Imperial rule had thus far failed to extend to such distant reaches of the galaxy, her homeworld was undeveloped and relatively uneducated, and thus the limited public education system failed to keep her mind occupied. She turned instead to theft and crime, but this, too, ultimately failed to provide the challenge for which she had hoped. Yet that came to an abrupt end when she tried her hand at the largest theft she had ever planned, and was subsequently discovered and apprehended.

With her adoptive parents in league with the local authorities, she was given no choice but to join the military, and so, at the assumed Human age of 18, she was shipped to the Imperial Naval Academy on Obroa-Skai, thus beginning what would soon become a lengthy and illustrious career within the Imperial Navy. It was at this time that she adjusted her surname to "Becket," in an attempt to distance herself from the parents who had sent her away. There are no reports of any subsequent encounter with the Becketts, who most likely relocated to an unknown location at some point, and are believed to have passed away due to old age since.


The Galactic Empire

Although she resisted substantially to such a dramatic change in lifestyle at first, Syn began to discover her talents, as well as a more productive outlet for her need for challenge and constant activity, while within the Navy. She rose swiftly through the ranks, assigned as fleet fighter commander in a squadron of TIE Interceptors, then commanding a Dreadnaught Heavy Cruiser, then a trio of Carrack Cruisers, and finally a Victory-class Star Destroyer of her own as she was promoted to the command staff of the Second Assault Fleet, the Navy's famous offensive fleet. She spent much of this time managing a private ship rental service during her free hours that was renowned for targeting the poor and taking in only minimal profits while trusting her personally acquired goods to strangers. This launched her career as a respected middleman among the galactic trading community. Following her additional work in handling all Naval personnel assignments and starship logistics over a two-year period as an officer, she ultimately received a position on Naval High Command as a highly-decorated Captain in charge of coordinating with all of the fleet commanders as Naval Chief Communications Officer, and frequently filled in for the other Naval commanders during their leaves of absence. During her time as an officer, she was also charged with overseeing the Empire-wide Tactical Essay Contests, leading Navy meetings, helping to develop Naval Academy course material, and administrating the Imperial holonet and various newsgroups and mailing lists.

It was also during her time in the Navy that she met Kosh Naranek, Falleen Lord of Black Sun, during a brief vacation. Although no records exist of significant subsequent contact between the two, much less any expressed public affection, they were married months later, leading the Imperial Security Bureau and the galaxy at large to wonder at the ulterior motives of the arrangement. The marriage did not last long, as the Galactic News Service shed light on an affair in which Kosh had been involved, and she was able to have the marriage annulled, a move which her Imperial peers seemed to fully support, likely due to the Falleen's shady reputation.

Syn's Imperial ID, Year 4

However, during the months following her promotion to Captain, an Imperial splinter group known originally as The Core and later as the Dark Empire rejoined the Galactic Empire and ultimately resulted in the removal of the popular emperor she had served throughout the majority of her career, Emperor Charon. It was also during this time that she began to notice a number of changes occurring within her own body, perhaps spurred by the significant stress she was undergoing as a result of her bureaucratic and military work as well as the new regime's questioning of her loyalties. She met with her personal medic for a diagnosis and learned that, in an advanced medical procedure, her DNA had been spliced with that of a Human at an early age to disguise her true identity, perhaps to give her the chance the biological parents she had never known had lacked in a galaxy so consumed with bias against non-Humans. She was a Falleen.

This did not bode well for her as the new leadership of the Empire took a much firmer stance against aliens in the ranks than Emperor Charon's regime had, and the breakdown of her splicing was irreversible at such a late stage and with the relatively limited knowledge of the field. She had been contemplating a resignation for some time, and this solidified matters. She turned her resignation in to Uebles, the new Emperor, along with the rest of the once-magnificent Second Assault Fleet. She then sought out Tembre Fe`ll, a half-Falleen entrepreneur and mercenary with whom she had become closely acquainted after her first marriage had ended, and accepted his proposal of marriage. The two were wed on board Tembre's modified Carrack-class Cruiser, the Hangover.

Campaigns


Outrider Trading and the Jedi Praxium

Syn spent the month following her Naval resignation holding down a temporary job as head of the transportation department for a small and unsuccessful trading company, Outrider Trading, operated at the time by Mystiel Raleigh, having rapidly sought out a neutral company in order to avoid being publicly labeled a wanted traitor. She found the work dull and beneath her, and so when the company was sold to the legendary thief, Keir Santage, and enough time had passed that she deemed it safe to move on, she and Fe`ll joined the Jedi Praxium where they led the Naval and armed forces respectively. Within the Praxium she became reacquainted with a number of former Imperials who had made similar career choices, including her old friends, Phryss and Eric Jackson, and were using the Praxium as a safehouse for Imperials fleeing the Empire due to the regime change.


Piracy

Syn's Imperial warrant, Year 5 - 12

Seven months with the Jedi Praxium had taught Syn that the group had fallen into a state of stagnancy and would be unsuccessful in opposing the Empire to any great extent. And so, she again found herself submitting her resignation, and found work instead in the Order of Krath, at the time a small band of pirates assembled by the infamous Noghri and former Sith Master, Thraken Solo, seemingly as disillusioned with the Empire as she. She spent several months with him, accompanying him on numerous campaigns and assassinations, and the two reportedly became close friends.

However, circumstances eventually led to her departure to the Eidola pirates, founded by Teniel Djo, the teenaged daughter of Keir Santage, where Thraken soon joined her before he himself was assassinated by an Imperial Army sergeant with whom she maintained a subsequent rivalry prior to his own demise. She remained with Eidola for a few more months, operating covertly as a pirate, and successfully keeping her affiliation concealed in order to preserve the trading reputation with which she made the majority of her profit. During this period, she was primarily known for a series of public pranks representative of her sense of humour, including the much publicized "sale" of Coruscant, in addition to numerous other planets throughout the galaxy. This behaviour led to an Imperial bounty placed on her head sometime in Year 5, which was removed nearly a decade later.


Starsign Shipyards

Syn, Year 5.

However, her surreptitious activities with Eidola insufficient in allowing her to maintain her desired high levels of activity, Syn took her leave in order to found Starsign Shipyards, a neutral and independent ship production company, with a number of close allies and associates from her prior affiliations. Here she enjoyed many years of astounding success as the galaxy's sole producer of the speedy YT-510 personal freighter, providing these and other freighters at a cost so low it opened the market to a significantly wider consumer base than previously known. With the aid of her friend, Tom Servo, she opened Starsign Mining as a sister company to more efficiently acquire the raw materials required for production and further expansion throughout the Rachuk sector. It was not long before she controlled the entire sector, although the Starsign Corporation headquarters tower and the bulk of her factories and mines were located on the world known as Argolfin prior to the galactic reclassification of all known worlds and systems in Year 13 when it instead became known as Oshora III.

Despite Starsign's selective and infrequent acquisition of new employees, the organization consistently experienced an unusually low rate of employee turnover and retirement, and boasted one of the highest average salaries available at the time. While some of the employees were existing associates of Syn, others, such as Olwin Froon and Stack Soto, later went on to make their own mark in the galaxy as prominent members of other organizations and governments.

Although it was for many years unknown and oft-speculated whether connections remained between Syn and the pirate groups of past, after nearly three years heading the mining and ship production companies comprising the Starsign Corporation, she abruptly sold both companies without public remark as well as the entire Rachuk sector that she controlled, and was subsequently spotted in the company of various notable Eidola pirates in the Outer Rim territories. Journalists speculated that she had grown bored of her business success, had burned out, or that perhaps it had all been a scheme to accumulate considerable wealth and power in order to solidify her reputation before returning to her less respectable activities and companions. Regardless of the nature of her motivation, this period marked the first public record of her status as a billionaire.


Eidola

Syn's active Imperial warrant

After several months, her return to Eidola--as well as her previous affiliation with the pirates--became publicized, and word spread rapidly throughout the galactic trading community. Her reputation as a trader and respectable middleman was called into question from time to time by newer traders, but accusations were promptly dismissed by the rest of the community due in part to her popularity and influence, and in part to the lack of evidence of any untrustworthy behavior as far as middling and trading were concerned. The activities in which she engaged in her personal time that did not relate to commerce transactions were deemed irrelevant to her trading status.

She has thus far remained with Eidola since Year 6, primarily known to participate in and frequently mastermind murders, captures of notorious individuals, and the occasional rescue of allies, as well as functioning as an honest middleman for traders with whom the pirates opt to trade honestly. Many details of her association and specific activities with the pirates remain largely unpublished, but she is frequently seen in the background of Holonet images or recordings and her presence is often mentioned in articles pertaining to some of the group's more renowned activities.

Although not a formal rank or position, Syn is coloquially nicknamed Pirate Consigliere by other members of Eidola for her perceptive analysis of situations and clever advice in the pirates' dealings. She formally took on the role of second in command of the pirate group sometime in Year 13, rapidly becoming one of the more public faces of Eidola through her activities and snarky media releases, but publicly claims to eschew positions of responsibility.

Unlike the more elusive pirates, Syn seems usually open and frequently arrogant about her galactic whereabouts. She is known to frequent the planet Ylesia in Hutt Space, where she publicly invites friends and enemies alike to visit and engage her in combat or games of capture, claiming that the majority of her visitors have been permitted to leave safely with a handful of souvenirs. It was during this period of public challenges that she located and captured the Imperial Executor, Seele, on Ylesia in Year 14, and reportedly ransomed him successfully back to the Empire for a Super Star Destroyer that she named Ragnarok. This resulted in an updated Imperial bounty placed on her head.

She is commonly spotted in the company of numerous wild creatures, many of which she claims to have bested in combat and domesticated.


Huruk-Rah

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In Year 5, Syn underwent a series of blood tests and discovered a portion of her heritage, that she was the descendant of one of the ancient kings that had ruled Falleen Prime prior to the formation of the Falleen Federation. Due to this, she formally became part of the Huruk-Rah, known as the Royal Clan of Falleen. As her parentage remained unknown and no others with a direct blood relationship to her had been discovered, Syn became the heir of the Third Royal Line, thereby inheriting the title of Princess. When Prince Jace Meridan, the clan Nathran (or leader), met his demise at the hands of the Sith at the infamous Battle of Beta one year later, she assumed control of the Royal Clan altogether with near unanimous support from the rest of the clan. She served as the clan's mouthpiece on the Sejm, the Falleen Federation's conglomerate of clan Nathrans and government officials, before this was disbanded by the Federation under King Bisz Aldaris due to significant and recurring political drama, coupled with Bisz's fear of losing support as leader of the government. It was later reestablished by Bisz's successor, King Rick Farlander, in an effort to solidify the bonds between the government and the clans and encourage clan participation in select governing decisions.

She led the clan until her resignation before the Sejm in Year 14, after she became a victim of the Metamorphosis Plague, citing her desire to see the royal clan remain pure of blood. Her chosen successor, Prince Jado Dur`rik, named her Yar'borouh, or honoured clan elder, despite her genetic mutations. She became the second Yar'borouh of Huruk-Rah since the founding of the Falleen Federation, alongside Prince Tholin, whom she had elevated to that position herself many years prior. This was an unprecedented move in permitting a non-Falleen to remain a Huruk-Rah member, justified by her legitimate clan heritage and the unusual circumstances involving the brief galaxy-wide spread of genetic mutation.


Metamorphosis Plague

Syn was an early victim of the Metamorphosis Plague, and announced her diagnosis on Year 14 Day 27. According to her report, one of her medical suppliers contracted the plague at Derra during a routine delivery before inadvertently relaying it to her on Ylesia. Her personal medic, a Huruk-Rah clanswoman named Xylah, diagnosed her shortly after she begin to exhibit physiological symptoms, and she fell severely ill while the plague ran its course. Over a period of several weeks, it resulted in her genetic transformation from Falleen to Anzati. She also learned that the mutation had rendered her sterile and unable to ever conceive, a rare side effect found in fewer than 1% of reported cases.

Excerpted Medical Notes

  • Day 1: Patient arrived, concerned about severe nausea and uncharacteristic muscle aches. Suspect overexertion and/or virus. Full scans reveal no abnormalities. Unusual bloodwork. Submitted from field.
  • Day 2: Nausea and aches continue. Patient exhibits extreme pallor for species and reports loss of appetite and inability to keep food down. Bloodwork reveals rare strain of plague. Diagnosis: Metamorphosis Plague, early stage. Not currently contagious. Treatment unavailable.
  • Day 3: Follow-up bloodwork submitted from field. Patient mobility increasingly limited by muscle aches. Medication prescribed (Form S-17a).
  • Day 4: Patient nearly immobilized and reports severe abdominal cramping. Medications ineffective. Heartrate and blood pressure dangerously high. Patient exhibits sporadic seizures.
  • Day 5: Full scans and bloodwork reveal uterine abnormalities indicative of infertility. Vomiting and seizures continue, followed by brief loss of consciousness. Patient complains that her "skin aches." Scales unusually cracked and dry. Submerged patient in bacta tank to relieve pain. Follow-up bloodwork confirms earlier diagnosis.
  • Day 6: Patient seizure-free for 12 standard hours. Symptoms appear to be subsiding. Vomiting continues but patient regaining mobility. Full scans reveal early stages of metamorphosis.
  • Day 7: Patient experiencing nausea and shortness of breath. Suffered violent seizure and potential delusions; required sedation. Scales appear to be shedding.
  • Day 8: Patient required sedation throughout the day due to extreme skin and muscle pain. Incoherent speech. Minimal superficial bleeding treated with bacta application. Full scans reveal slowly advancing metamorphosis. Unable to stabilize.
  • Day 9: Genetic code modifications identified as Anzati (DNA analysis attached; genetic markers highlighted). No further seizures observed. Epidermal and muscular pain persists but manageable with medication. Patient mobility returning.


Abilities and Personality

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In addition to her aptitude for starship command resulting from her career within the Imperial Navy, Syn is reportedly extremely skilled in many forms of melee combat. Following her resignation from the Empire, she was rarely seen in public without her metal staff, but over the following years when she joined with the Eidola pirates, she seems to have begun to prefer dual-wielding vibroblades or ELG-3A blaster pistols. She has also accumulated a large number of victories in both unarmed and ranged weapons combat, and has bested the majority of her opponents who have accepted her public challenge on Ylesia.

Throughout her various careers, Syn has been known by all her employers and subordinates alike as cold, dispassionate, and arrogant, but highly intelligent and perceptive. The more organized traits may stem from her practice in enforcing regulations and managing logistics while assisting with fleet and Naval command within the Empire. This seems to have served her well in business while she singlehandedly managed construction and production of Starsign Shipyards as well as developing and overseeing the entire sector of Rachuk, but this blunt and controlling personality has undoubtedly garnered her a large number of enemies, from which she has thusfar remained unscathed. However, her attitude seems to have become noticeably more laid back and dismissive since spending the majority of her time with the rest of the Eidola pirates, perhaps due to having abandoned so many of her prior responsibilities.

Whether she has genuinely cared about any of her subordinates, coworkers, or associates is uncertain, but interviews reveal that she is largely regarded as competent, capable, and direct, in both the areas of business and combat. In regard to galactic politics, trading, and drama she is opinionated and speaks her mind, employing wordplay, dry humour, and cleverness to gain support for her thoughts and ideas. She seems altogether disinterested in interpersonal relationships of any manner, rarely seen in the company of friends or lovers. Even her marital status remains uncertain, as does information in regard to Fe`ll's whereabouts over the past years, but Syn has not been seen using a surname since shortly after the wedding and the modified Carrack once belonging to her husband has since been re-registered in her name.


Awards

Galactic Empire

Award Image

Award Name

Given By

Date Received

ARIT

Academy Recruit Indoctrination Test

Grand Admiral Tj

Y2 D98

NAA

Navy Achievement Award

Lord Admiral IWAssassin

Y2 D183

FCO

Fleet Commanding Officer Award

Lord Admiral IWAssassin

Y2 D183

IABG-H

Imperial Academy Basic Graduate with Honors

Lieutenant Spoz

Y2 D298

ILA

Imperial Literacy Award

Commodore Savk

Y3 D24

3LOC

3 Letters of Commendation

Director Naal Soven, Rear Admiral OVERMIND 2x

Y3 D210

ICA

Imperial Citizenship Award

Moff Correll Aintab

Y3 D210(?)

2 DB

Duty Bars, 2 Years

Commodore Hack Skice

Y4 D25

ACH

Imperial Service Achievement Award

Rear Admiral Savk

Y4 D33

N-BET

Navy Betterment Award

Vice Admiral Savk

Y4 D71

BEA

Battle Efficiency Award

Vice Admiral OVERMIND

Y4 D123

2UDS

2 Unit Distinguished Service Awards

Vice Admiral OVERMIND 2x

Y4 D123

Alderaan

Battle of Alderaan Participation Ribbon

Vice Admiral OVERMIND

Y4 D123


Imperial of the Month

Year 4 Day 41


Veritas Press

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First Annual Veritas Awards (Year 14)

Syn was nominated for three of the six categories by the galaxy at large, and, following a public voting period, won in all three categories:

  • Person of the Year: The individual who most affected the events of the year, for better or for worse
  • Heist of the Year: Syn's capture and ransom of Executor Seele
  • News Headline of the Year: Syn's capture and ransom of Executor Seele